Battle of Mookerheyde
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In the Battle of Mookerheyde, Spanish Tercios defeated Dutch forces composed of German mercenaries, on 14 April 1574, during the Eighty Years' War on the heath near the village Mook and the river Meus
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…the 1572 Siege of Middelburg and the Battle of Flushing a year later. In 1574, Dávila defeated Louis and Henry, brothers of William the Silent, in the Battle of Mookerheyde. In 1576, as commander of the Spanish troops in the Citadel of Antwerp, Dávila was the main instigator of the Sack of Antwerp in which between 7,000…
Slag op de Moockerheijde